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Main Authors: Kirkpatrick, T. R., Belitz, D.
Format: Preprint
Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.08123
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author Kirkpatrick, T. R.
Belitz, D.
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Belitz, D.
contents Long-time tails, or algebraic decay of time-correlation functions, have long been known to exist both in many-body systems and in models of non-interacting particles in the presence of quenched disorder that are often referred to as Lorentz models. In the latter, they have been studied extensively by a wide variety of methods, the best known example being what is known as weak-localization effects in disordered systems of non-interacting electrons. This paper provides a unifying, and very simple, approach to all of these effects. We show that simple modifications of the diffusion equation due to either a random diffusion coefficient, or a random scattering potential, accounts for both the decay exponents and the prefactors of the leading long-time tails in the velocity autocorrelation functions of both classical and quantum Lorentz models.
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spellingShingle Diffusion, Long-Time Tails, and Localization in Classical and Quantum Lorentz Models: A Unifying Hydrodynamic Approach
Kirkpatrick, T. R.
Belitz, D.
Disordered Systems and Neural Networks
Long-time tails, or algebraic decay of time-correlation functions, have long been known to exist both in many-body systems and in models of non-interacting particles in the presence of quenched disorder that are often referred to as Lorentz models. In the latter, they have been studied extensively by a wide variety of methods, the best known example being what is known as weak-localization effects in disordered systems of non-interacting electrons. This paper provides a unifying, and very simple, approach to all of these effects. We show that simple modifications of the diffusion equation due to either a random diffusion coefficient, or a random scattering potential, accounts for both the decay exponents and the prefactors of the leading long-time tails in the velocity autocorrelation functions of both classical and quantum Lorentz models.
title Diffusion, Long-Time Tails, and Localization in Classical and Quantum Lorentz Models: A Unifying Hydrodynamic Approach
topic Disordered Systems and Neural Networks
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.08123